All New Jersey public schools will be required to install silent panic alarms to alert authorities during emergencies like active shooters in the wake of the Parkland, Florida massacre. Full… Read More
Pittsburgh area over the next decade, educators, government officials and employers agree that they need to communicate better to prepare the workforce of the future. That effort was the subject… Read More
Gov. Tom Wolf has proposed raising the statewide minimum salary for teachers in public school districts. He wants to raise the minimum from the current $18,500 set in 1989 to… Read More
To more fairly compare the amount of state aid for basic education each district would receive under the governor’s 2019-20 proposal to this year’s funding, PennLive combined the basic education… Read More
In terms of education dollars, the first budget of Gov. Tom Wolf’s second term isn’t as ambitious as the one he proposed four years ago. But it does keep education… Read More
Highlights of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s spending plan for the 2019-20 budget year that starts July 1. Associated Press, Feb. 5, 2019 Full story
PA Schools Work, a non-partisan coalition of organizations representing urban, suburban and rural communities, of which the PA Principals Association is a member, called Governor Wolf’s 2019-20 budget proposal a good… Read More
Fears of brain injuries has deterred many parents and their children from choosing to play football. After years of publicity about how dangerous football can be, football enrollment has declined… Read More
A measles outbreak near Portland, Oregon, has revived a bitter debate over so-called “philosophical” exemptions to childhood vaccinations as public health officials across the Pacific Northwest scramble to limit the… Read More
Public school advocates are asking Wolf for a $400 million increase on the roughly $6.1 billion the state sends to school districts for general instruction and operations costs. The past… Read More